From: Charles W. <cwi...@us...> - 2009-07-17 21:16:48
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Keith Marshall wrote: > Sure. A staticly linked bzip2 "bin" package is 36k when packed as > bzip2-*-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma, vs. 112k as bzip2-*-mingw32-bin.tar.gz, > but I was thinking more of a bootstrapping issue -- if you don't have > an lzma decompressor, how do you unpack lzma-*-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma, > so that you can then unpack bzip2-*-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma? Right. Ooops. Yeah, the xz package(s) should probably be packed as a .tar.gz. Thanks. > For the more modern compression formats, gzip may be considered the > most readily accessible format for bootstrapping. Of course, that > still leaves a bootstrap issue for gzip itself, but there seems to > be no shortage of readily available tools to handle that. Ack. -- Chuck |